Common People: where are the working class writers?

Inspired by a shared concern that working class voices are increasingly absent from the pages of books and newspapers, Kit de Waal has come together with Unbound and Writing West Midlands, alongside the other regional writing organisations, to publish new writers with established writers and to provide a writing development programme.

Common People will bring together sixteen well-known writers from working class backgrounds with an equal number of new writers.

Writing West Midlands sought submissions of personal memoir from writers in the West Midlands who are largely unpublished for inclusion in the anthology. The two writers selected will be published in Common People and will be offered writer development support from Writing West Midlands.